We have had such a fun week. Grammy came to visit from Florida on Tuesday and is staying until this Thursday. James loves to have different people around, and I am excited that we have been able to get out of the house. On Wednesday we went to Toys R Us and Grammy bought James his birthday present. A little early but now she doesn't have to ship it. We went home and filled the bathtub with the little plastic balls she got for him and he had a lot of fun.

On Friday we took the kids to the park. James loved to swing. He was so relaxed and loved to laugh at Myra on the swing next to him.

Later that day Doug, Chad, Shannon, Lexi, Blake and my cousin Chris came up. We were pretty packed in the small condo! James took his first steps! Shannon was holding a graham cracker which are his favorite and he took a couple of steps to get over to her. We were glad that we had our camera ready. He continues to love to walk around holding onto my finger but wont take any more steps on his own.

Saturday was my birthday and we had a fun day. We spent most of the morning playing Wii, which was a lot of fun with so many people. Then we went to Montpelier to go bowling. Doug and I did awful! We had Pizza then went back to the condo for cake. It was a lot of fun.

We have been having so much fun this past weekend. Doug's parents came to visit for the Easter Holiday and James had so much fun visiting with Grandma and Grandpa and his uncles. Doug took Friday off and we went down to Provo to visit the BYU campus. James was too excited to take his morning nap so we were hoping that he would sleep in the car. He fell asleep just as we got there and actually took a nap in his car seat for 30-45 minutes. I wish I had a camera! Then we went to lunch at Brickoven Pizza and James had so much fun putting his hands in the pizza and jumping on the bench, again I wish I had my camera.





On Saturday Doug spent a lot of time playing at the park with his brothers. They had a lot of fun. Grandpa took James over to play with his Lightning McQueen. James loved to push it around and play in the grass.

James found this ball to play with on Sunday. He would crawl over to it then throw it to himself and then go get it again. Then he found the vent under the sink. He loves to play with that now and push it around on the tile.

I thought i would put a few updated pictures from the Draper Temple on. These are from the west side of the building. All the stone is complete and the window frames and stained glass is in.

I think we are all really sick of winter. James and I can't wait for the spring so we can get out of the house. It has been really hard this winter only having one car. This past week has been very warm (high 40s low 50s) so we have been out walking every day. James loves to go outside and screams when we go back inside the house. There is a trail by our house that goes along the Jordan river that we love to walk on. There is also a bunch of ducks that James loves to go and watch, he even tries to give them some of his cheerios. These two ducks hang out in front of our house. They drive Loa crazy.




When we go for walks James has to hold Loa's leash. He grabs on and laughs and laughs. I don't know why it is so funny but it is pretty cute.
James has also been learning to walk. Doug decided that it was time to really work with him to get him walking. He has been using his Lightning McQueen car to help him walk. Now James uses his Lightning McQueen and his Tonka Trucks to walk everywhere! It is so funny/frustrating because he will walk across the room then get stuck on something. He drops to the ground, looks at whoever is near and starts throwing a tantrum so we will come and turn the car around so he can go back the other way.